Lot 109
  • 109

Jean-Claude Farhi

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean-Claude Farhi
  • Untitled, Three columns
  • poly(methyl methacrylate)
each signed `Farhi' and dated `70'

Exhibited

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Gunter Sachs - Retrospektive, 2003
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Gunter Sachs, 2008
Moscow, Museum Tsaritsyno, Gunter Sachs, 2009, n.p., two of the columns illustrated

 

Literature

Gunter Sachs, Mein Leben, Munich, 2005, p. 384

Condition

Overall minor surface scratching to all columns. Blue column - a couple of very minor chips to top flat edge, and an area, approx. 7cm in length, also to the top edge, with unevenness and internal bruising in three misshapen arcs, photographs are available on request. Lime green column - with one chip to the underside of the base resulting in small internal bruise, a number of chips to the top flat edge, most obviously at the very top. Orange column - again with a number of chips to top flat edge towards the top.
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